• This thread is just the tip of the iceberg.The people ahead of the curve aren't Googling for answers — they're already in here, having the conversations you haven't found yet. DealerRefresh is free.Get the full picture →
  • B
    Cobalt Group Releases Its Annual Automotive eShopper Experience™ Study A comprehensive survey of automotive shopper response practices...
  • M
    Michael Roberts replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Hello,   If you are willing, would you please make your visitors aware of our attempt to organize victims of RipOffReport.com in order...
  • J
    I think that reputation management is extremely important to having a successful business, and looking at ripoffreport.com from a...
  • A
    I haven't seen it mentioned on here and since it is highly topical, thought I would post it. I hope I'm not trampling all over the...
  • S
    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Thanks. I just believe that our expressions should remain humble. You all have some interesting points and those links were a great...
  • J
    Joey Stivick replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Stan, very well put. Let us speak our minds and not be attacked for giving our opinions. I made a comment and was brutally attacked for...
  • J
    Joe Pistell replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Note to all vendors who are puzzled. See Brian's post above. It is a classic in social marketing success. His message is pure and...
  • Brian Pasch
    I would like to add two other sites that are popping up for negative posts, which include: www.complaintsboard.com and...
  • S
    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Wow can't we all just get along here? We are all car guys of high caliber and we all manage the industry as a whole when it all comes...
  • J
    Joey (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Hey Pistell. I dont work for Carfolks.com so shove it. I just think they do a great job. Mind your own business. My comments are my own.
  • M
    Mark Dubis (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Sorry if I disagree but it appears you are approaching this from the typical dealer reactive strategy. Did you wait for all of your...
  • A
    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Mark, I like what you're trying to do, but your approach to selling it is very spammy. You have calmed that approach down...
  • M
    Mark Dubis (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Alex and Joe, I thought the idea for this blog was to share tools and positive things dealers and salesmen can do to build their...
  • A
    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Joe - I love you man.
  • J
    Joe Pistell replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Joe err.. Joey. So how long have you been working for CarFolks? Tell your boss to buy some ad space here, you'll get more sales that...
  • J
    Joey (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    There is. It is called CarFolks.com. It is pretty cool. CarFolks.com can help dealers. It is FREE for every sales person in the country...
  • M
    Mark Dubis (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Too bad there isn't a social network/review site that allows sales people and dealerships to talk about all the good things they do for...
  • J
    Joey Stivick replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Best thing to do is to just ignore this stuff. It goes away eventually and it really has little or no impact on your store or sales.
  • Alex Jefferson
    Chad- I think you have great input on the best way to fight against the negative reviews. By creating more content pages that rank...
  • Paul Rushing
    In addition to what Chad added. If you have multiple layers or content that are updated frequently you can keep the rating sites out of...
  • S
    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread Ripoffreport.com and your Dealerships Online Reputation.
    Well I know that there is a section for a rebuttal on that site. The problem is that it never gets removed. This site causes more harm...
  • P
    I am very familiar with ripoffreport.com. If you look further into it, you'll see that it is run by a criminal. Many people have told...
  • C
    Glen - You are describing a problem that is obviously tough to control. One of the things we suggest and help our dealers with is...
  • K
    I also worked to address a complaint on ripoffreport.com, and was then "trashed" by another user on that site that happened to be...
  • tomwhitejr
    The challenge with ripoffreport and other similar sites is that they are so heavily slanted against the Dealer. Any customer can post a...
  • Filter